The word conservative is an adjective that is used to designate those people or policies whose objective is precisely to preserve traditional structures or forms, without yielding to any type of renovation or modernization that may occur. Normally, the conservative groups in a society are those that are made up of the upper classes that are always reluctant to progressive, liberal or left-wing attitudes. In general terms, the word conservative can have a negative meaning since at present conservative positions are those that do not accept changes or progress.
As its name implies, conservatism is a political, social and economic ideology that is based on the preservation of all those traditional institutions and elements of a society, not progressive. Conservatism opposes both liberalism and all revolutionary ideologies since both propose both changes and freedoms that do not conform to traditional structures (the Church, power concentrated in a few people, protectionist economic policies, elitist cultural forms and expressions, etc. ).
At present, it is common to find countries in which there is a clear division between conservative and progressive political parties. These current conservative parties are always the most reluctant to generate any type of change and thus enter into great conflicts with those more liberal or modern parties.
The term conservative can, consequently, be applied to people since in that case we would speak of individuals with little tolerance to change or to any type of modification of the structures (whatever they may be) that govern their lives and day-to-day lives. Normally, the older people are the ones who show a more conservative attitude while the young people tend to be those who have a more revolutionary or progressive spirit. This has to do with the stage in which each one is and with what it means to have lived a lifetime in a certain way and not be ready, at a certain age, to change.
